What city is the best to live in? Where are enough parks, shops and other services for your life to be as comfortable as possible? The western standards are getting higher and higher, people are moving in and out more frequently for better job opportunities as well as for better quality of life and they are also getting harder to please. Mercer Human Resource Consulting Company has recently done a research focused on the quality of life and general living standards in cities and capitals around the world. People were asked to judge the quality of their life and to estimate how comfortable and content they are about their lives. The output of this research is the list of the world’s top ten inhabitant-friendly cities.
Okay, so no U.S. cities made the top 10. How did the rankings look beyond that, i.e. #11-25?
Also, note that your cover photo for the article is Dallas - hardly a contender, even in the U.S. How about Minneapolis, Portland or Boston instead?
Americans tend to place the bar high, therefore never being satisfied...evident in not being even in the top 25, yet we have some darn good cities!
The first US city in the rank is Honolulu - on the 27th position.
The cover photo for the article is NOT Dallas, its Houston. I live here and love it!!!
americans are the unfriendliest of people, so who would want to live amongst them. The standards in USA are not great, yet when they come and visit abroad, they expect far more than they are willing to pay. The service and product of our Tourism Destinations in South Africa are world class - yet you still cannot satisfy an American. They think they are the world - well guess what, its time to wake up and smell the roses.
Ok some of you are completely arrogant it makes me sick. First of all as an American its crap to say we are the least friendly. Has anyone ever been to Switzerland? Talk about unfriendly. I studied abroad at the LSE a few years ago and found everyone outside Northern, Western, and Eastern Europe to be friendly...all the other continents and especially Americans and Canadians. But the utter snobbery, looking down their noses, white hegemonic pretentiousness came from the (and let me add) white and wealthy European. And as for expecting serice to be great...its true! In Europe there is barely any good customer service...but guess what jack asses Americans friggin give tips...thats why service people love us! The reason US cities don't make it on this list is that most cities don't have good enough transportation. And frankly a good and interesting has some grit and dirt to it, otherwise its too damd manicured...like Vienna nothing but an open air museum with really no personality.
i admit is difficult (or better impossible) to give an answer without knowing at least half the cities in half the world. so i'll give the knowledge that i have.
i live between italy and swizzerland and i know some people from swizzerland and german (also from zurich and monaco).
swizzerland is good place. no doubt. but quite all the people who live there are (excuse the expression) "brain-washed". if you ask them, theyr country is the best, ever and for all. they are sotisfied, yes, but due to some kind of arrogance.
between north of italy and south of swizzerland life is not so different (believe in me). the main difference is that swiss folks are happy and build theyr happiness on the "disgusting" outlands (most of all italy, spain and france), italian folks arn't so happy because they blindly think that the rest of the UE is a sort of paradise. (i'm making the thing simple...the matter is more complex)
to be honest, swizzerland and german are good... but problem still exist. i can also tell that swizzerland and german are better than italy, but not drastically. i think that the same could be told about difference between UE and USA.
(forgive my bad english... it's a bit rusty)
Germany and Switzerland have very nice and beautiful cities. However, I think Milan or Turin, Italy could've made this list same with Lyon or Strasbourg, France or Amsterdam, NL.